Validus Risk Management

Senior Python Software Engineer - Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 260 days ago

PythonRustDjangoFastAPIMySQLMongoDBDynamoDBAWSCollaborationRisk Modeling

About the role

Validus is looking for a financial software engineer to join our back-end team.
This team is responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining the systems and services powering the rapidly growing, award-winning technology offering at Validus.
Horizon comprises multiple applications for trade execution, portfolio management and risk analysis for alternative asset managers in various domains, such as private equity, private debt and real estate.

Engage with external stakeholders and clients to understand their needs and design solutions for capturing and integrating their data for it to be utilised on Horizon.
Support ad hoc maintenance of our applications and scheduled processes.
Implement cloud-native solutions on AWS, ranging from HTTP APIs to event-driven microservices utilising gRPC.
Design data models for elegantly capturing the business domain of complex trades across multiple asset classes.
Build out performance-critical systems written in Rust, and contribute efficient, testable and maintainable code to our Python codebase with performance and observability in mind.

Build a strong understanding of FX and interest rate products, the related financial markets, and market data sources.
The ideal candidate will likely hold a Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, mathematics, finance or a related field.
Experience with one or more modern programming languages.
Experience with databases.
We use MongoDB, MySQL and DynamoDB, but experience with other database technologies would also be valuable.

Experience with financial risk management software or platforms.
Knowledge of AWS computing platforms and services.
Validus assesses market data to ensure a competitive compensation package for our employees.
Experience with financial or market risk modelling is a plus but not required.
Experience with AWS is a plus but not required.
/Experience: Experience with financial risk management software or platforms.

The base salary for this position is expected to be between $100,000 and $150,000 per year at the commencement of employment.
However, base salary if hired will be determined on an individualised basis, including as to experience and market location, and is only part of the Validus total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include, generous bonus, and Company-sponsored benefit programs.

We mostly use Rust and Python, but we are keen to speak with strong engineers from any background.
We are constantly looking for potential technologies to improve our platform.

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